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THE HAPPINESS
OP
SEPARAT!..
SPIRITS.
[DISC.
It:
that
longs
after
him
:
he
hides. his
face,
and then
who
can beheld
it
?
We are
stifitten with
a
sense
of
sin,
and
the
conscience
is
rest:ess.
We wander
from thing to
thing
in
much
confusion
of
spirit
;
we go
from
provi-
dences
to
ordinances, from
one word
in
the bible
to
anó-
.ther,
from
self-
examination
and inward guilt
to
the blood
of
Christ; and the mercy
of
the father
-;
add it may be
outward
sorrows fall
on
us
at
the same
time,
guilt
,and'
judgment attend
usat
once
:
The deep of
affliction
calls
to
the
deep
of
sin
at
the noise
of
the
floods
of
divine
an-
ger
;
Psal.
xlii.
7.
We
are kept
in
the dark for
a sea-
son,
and
we
see
not
the light
of
his
countenance, nor
know our
own
interest
in
his
love.
We
go
forward,
as
Job
did,
but
he
is
not
there;
and backward,
but
we
can
-
i-lot
perceive
him,
&c.
All
the
comfort
that
a
good man
'bath
atsuch
-a
season,
is
to
appeal
to
God,
that
he
know-
eth
the way
that I
take
;
when he
bath tried
me,
I
hum-
bly
hope
-I
shall come
forth
as
gold;" Job
xxiii.
8,
9,
10.
But
the spirits
of
the
just
made perfect,
are
in peaceful.
and
joyous
circumstances.
They
know
God, for
they
see
his
face
;
they know
that
they love him,
for they
feel
and
enjoy
it
as-
the
warmest and sweetest
affection
of
their
hearts
:
and
they
are
sure
God
loves them
too
;
for every
moment
they
taste
his love,
and
live
Upon
it
in all
the
rick
varieties of
its
manifestation.
_O
what unknown and endless satisfactions
of
mind
arise from the
full
assurance
of
the
love
of
God
!
What
tongue
can
express, or what
heart
can conceive
the
sa-
creel
pleasure
that
fills
every
soul
in
heaven,
under
the
immediate impressions.
of
divine
-love
!
When the
poor
trembling doubting
believer,
that
knew
himself
to
be
in&
nicely.
unworthy
of
the favour
of
God,
,or-
of
the
meanest
place
in
his house,
shall
be
acknowledged
as
a
son.
in
the
midst
ofhis
Father's court`on
high,
and
amongst
millions
of
congratulating
angels
!
No
cloud
shall
ever interpose,
no Melancholy gloom,
no shadow
of
darkness
shall
ever arise
in
those regions':
for the countenance
of
God,
like
the sun
in
its highest
strength,
shall shine
and
smile
upon
them
for ever. And
through the length
of
all
their
immortality, there
shall
not
be
the.least interruption
of
the sweet
intercourse of
love,
.
on
God's
side,
or
on theirs.
Iu that
world
there
is
no
sorrow,
for there
is
no sin,;